Word: brac
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...taunting Olivia with memories of Marie-Henrie. Olivia liked dogs; Sage acquired cats (which Marie-Henrie loved and he detested). Olivia wanted Sage to decorate their house with works of art; Sage hung photographs of locomotives and maps of his railroad holdings. Olivia liked Oriental rugs and bric-a-brac; Sage littered the parlor with buffalo robes. But Olivia got even. When Sage died in 1906, leaving her "the wealthiest woman in the world," Olivia dispersed his fortune in good works, endowed schools and colleges, planted rhododendrons in Central Park, and established the Russell Sage Foundation, which has to date...
There was a time a few years ago when the only U.S. sculpture well known abroad was the bric-a-brac-cluttered black boxes of Louise Nevelson and the swinging mobiles of Alexander Calder. And even Calder hardly counted, since most Frenchmen consider him French anyway (he has a second studio in Saché). But last week more than 13 tons of the New World descended upon Paris in the largest exhibition of American sculpture ever shown in Europe. The site, of all places, was the Rodin Museum, and the impact nothing short of formidable...
...waste of the world becomes my art," Schwitters scribbled on the back of one collage. Beginning with his 1919 encounter with the Dada movement, he made art out of stamps, trademarks, slogans, coins, buttons, torn-up photographs and headlines, used for punning or oblique meanings. He hunted bric-a-brac in the streets, even carried a small screwdriver, which he once was caught using to detach a "Rauchen Verboten" sign from the back of a streetcar...
...about what kind of buildings could be considered improperly constructed. No items were knocked off walls or shelves in the four furnished test houses in the close-in boom area, but the report found that "the booms have initiated or aggravated some damage in the areas of bric-a-brac, wall hangings, wall covering, plaster, sheet-rock and glass...
...serving a variety of subtle editorial purposes; the ritual cocktails at the Algonquin Hotel, to which no newly hired staffer dare come until he is formally-but oh so casually-invited; the religious regard for the offices of deceased or departed writers, in which all the original bric-a-brac is kept reverentially in place...